A line from two movies: Braveheart and the Stepford Wives.
(a version of this toon was posted earlier. The author is to the left of center figure) Please give to St. Jude's Hospital: Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, Tennessee 38105/ 800-822-6344
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Otis Moon -- a novel -- is an homage of sorts for Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett: a Yank noir, an American statement of perseverance for all those dysfunctional mutts out there (with or without access to a dentist) that somehow seem to get the job done no matter how many times they get their teeth kicked in. The story begins in 1939 San Francisco in the latter stages of America’s massive financial heart attack and subsequent stroke, The Great Depression, and on the bleak cusp of world war. Plagiarizing Dante’s Divine Comedy and Russian Roulette and the Boy Scout Manual our mug Otis Moon lurches into existential being in a shabby office in a gray part of town where the only vegetation is a picture of a cactus on a lost page of the Chronicle as it blows by like tumbleweed… Which Otis Moon follows to Sacramento, Toledo, New York, the North Atlantic, Southampton (UK), Sligo (Ireland), Boston, and Fort Bragg (CA); then boomeranging to San Francisco’s Tenderloin District. Moon, a former boatswain's mate, is a man of many minds but only one hat, a fedora, a gift from a dead friend. He has lots of dead friends but only the one hat. The Moon Man’s frayed trench coat and un-shined brogans say more about him than he will, but once he gets that old coat buttoned and those tarnished shoes tied off he’s as tough to stop as a runaway beer wagon on 29th Street (with the same distinct odor). He is just as unpredictable, too, as he careens downwind or in the direction of sure-fire catastrophe armed with a Dysfunctional American Mutt's grab bag of survival skills. This novel is for sale on Amazon and other on-line vendors. Reviews can be found on this website. Incident on a Tasmanian beach.
(a version of toon posted earlier) Please give to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc: 2600 Network Boulevard, Suite 300/ Frisco, Texas 75034/ 972-248-9200 9/11 brought devastation and profound loss, fear brought a new world, children new hope, a national soul brought endurance and a spirit to rebuild. Our grief made us thoughtful, our dilemma is that our sense of justice and freedom might not keep us safe but it will keep us American. Our hearts are with those that suffered and suffer still.
(First appeared in Carbuncle Moon 9/11/13) Please visit the 9/11 Memorial:180 Greenwich Street/ New York, New York 10007 (edited 9/9) Some stuff about Bush's Immigration reform: "Saying the United States needs an immigration system 'that serves the American economy and reflects the American dream,' President Bush Wednesday outlined a(n) plan to revamp the nation's immigration laws and allow some eight million illegal immigrants to obtain legal status as temporary workers. "Over the generations, we have received energetic, ambitious optimistic people from every part of the world. By tradition and conviction, our country is a welcoming society," he said. "Every generation of immigrants has reaffirmed the wisdom of remaining open to the talents and dreams of the world." - CNN/ 1-8-04 President Bush opposed an automatic path to citizenship via amnesty... - CNN President Bush's immigration reforms, his plan, was not adopted by Congress. Some stuff about Obama's Immigration reform: "Brushing aside warnings from Republicans, President Obama announced Thursday night that he is granting temporary legal status and work permits to nearly 5 million illegal immigrants, igniting a constitutional furor that amounted to a declaration of war against the incoming Republican majorities in Congress. "In a 15-minute prime-time address from the White House, Mr. Obama said his action is 'lawful,' and said it offered a new deal for illegal immigrants who had been in the U.S. for at least five years: Come forward and register, pass a background check, and be granted a stay of deportation and a work permit good for at least three years." President Obama believed his program was not a policy of amnesty. - Dave Boyer/ Washington Times/ 11-20-14 "In a crushing blow to the White House, the Supreme Court announced Thursday it was evenly divided in a case concerning President Barack Obama's controversial executive actions on immigration. "The one-sentence ruling, issued without comment or dissent, means that the programs will remain blocked from going into effect, and the issue will return to the lower court. It is exceedingly unlikely the programs will go into effect for the remainder of the Obama presidency." - Ariane de Vogue & Tal Kopan/ CNN/ 6-23-16 Congress takes a dive on immigration reform (c. 2016/ posted earlier)
Please support Farm Worker Justice: 1126 16th Street NW, Suite 270/ Washington, DC 20036/ 202-293-5420 "North Korea is a secretive country - and, like most secretive countries, it is especially susceptible to cliche-ridden descriptions. Some such cliches are basically well-founded, while others are seriously misleading or outdated. "One of the most commonly cited cliches is that North Korea is a 'destitute, starving country'. Once upon a time, such a description was all too sadly correct: In the late 1990s, North Korea suffered a major famine that, according to the most recent research, led to between 500,000 and 600,000 deaths. However, starvation has long since ceased to be a fact of life in North Korea"... ... "However, this does not mean that North Korea is an affluent country. The CIA fact book estimates North Korea's GDP per capita to be $1,800. Even this estimate is probably excessively optimistic. There is a good reason to believe that the actual per capita GDP of North Korea is in the region of $800-900. This means, of course, that North Korea is a seriously poor country. However, poverty does not equal starvation." - by Andrei Lankov/ author: "The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia" The people in the Korean Peninsula's neighborhood, the South Koreans, the North Koreans, the Japanese, the Chinese, and the Russians will be the first to suffer in any war that is initiated by any combatant. Any conflict will bring the death of thousands of innocents, maybe hundreds of thousands, maybe millions. The North Korean people are an impoverished and oppressed people, their opportunities in life are Gulag-directed in a "Failed Stalinist Utopia," they need the people of the west and of their neighborhood to care about what happens to them as if they were just like us. Please see Carbuncle Moon posts: 8/12, 8/10. & 8/8... Hair fight over Seoul, Round 17: "I don't trust you as far as I can spit with my mouth wired shut, Donald" -- "I don't trust you as far as I can spit with my mouth wired shut, Kim Jong Un" -- "China is kissin yer butt, Donald" -- "South Korea is kissin yer butt, Kim Jong Un" -- "I'm gonna kick yer butt Donald" -- "No, I'm gonna kick yer butt Kim Jong Un" -- "No, I'm gunna kick yer butt Donald" -- "No, I'm gunna kick yer butt Kim Jong Un..." (a collaborative cartoon)
Please give to Nor-Cal Inland Chapter of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF): 950 Fulton Avenue, Suite 150/ Sacramento, California 95825/ 916-920-0790 Happy Labor Day:
Labor Day is a celebration of the American labor movement, and of all American workers. - U.S. Labor Department To ensure equal pay in the workplace, equal rights in all other things, Ms. Trump you need to pass Alice Paul's and Crystal Eastman's Equal Right's Amendment, first authored in 1923. In 1958, Dwight D. Eisenhower, a career military officer, a Republican, was the first president to support the concept, as a Constitutional amendment and in the belief that women needed a legal mandate to provide equal rights with American men. Ivanka, enlist at least 38 states to make the ERA a Constitutional amendment. - (some information provided by Wikipedia) Please see Carbuncle Moon blog of 1/21/17... Please support the League of Women Voters of Maine: P.O. Box 863/ Augusta, Maine 04332/ 207-620-0256/ and: The League of Women Voters of Sacramento County: 801 12th Street, Suite 201/ Sacramento, California 95814/ 916-447-8683 |
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